Melissa's Staff Picks

I'm a librarian at Southeast Regional Library, and these are some of my favorite reads! Feel free to email me at melissa.schultz@wakegov.com if you enjoyed one of these books!
 

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1. All the beauty in the world: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me

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Author:
Bringley, Patrick
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Description:
"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--

2. The almost legendary Morris sisters: a true story of family fiction

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Author:
Klam, Julie
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Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
974.7 KLAM
East Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
974.7 KLAM
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
974.7 KLAM
Description:
"Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the 20th century the sisters' parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their mother died. The father left the children in an orphanage...

3. The glass castle: a memoir

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Author:
Walls, Jeannette
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities. In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and...

4. Recursion: a novel

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Author:
Crouch, Blake
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Memory makes reality. That's what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome--a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. Neuroscientist Helena Smith already understands the power of memory. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious moments of our pasts....

5. A tree grows in Brooklyn

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Author:
Smith, Betty, 1896-1972
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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An autobiographical novel concerning a young daughter of German immigrants growing up in the slums of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the early 20th century.

6. A woman is no man: a novel

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Author:
Rum, Etaf
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Description:
Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.